Sentence examples for two vocations from inspiring English sources

But his two vocations have similarities.

After moving to Vienna, in 1906, he rebelled by operating between the two vocations, as a decorator.

"He is working with two universes that have their own rules, but one doesn't feel an abyss between his two vocations," he said.

"This guy isn't a murderer, he's an artist!" Mailer notoriously declared of Abbott, as if the two vocations were mutually exclusive.

Renault's first novels were all written while she worked as a nurse, the two vocations competing for her energy if not her attention.

Somewhere between the two vocations, he accumulated a felony conviction, an alcohol addiction and numerous debts; now he enjoys regular pizza and fornication with his landlord's wife and suffers ominous nosebleeds at inopportune moments.

In my case, I have four vocations: I'm a corporate strategist at a Fortune 500 company, US Navy Reserve officer, author of several books, and record producer.

Not three vocations that ordinarily inhere in one man (though some improbable combination of Audubon and Indiana Jones might cover it) and not the full tally of Dion's occupations, either.

The pull and tug of these three vocations is on display in several of his poems, particularly the autobiographical Affliction (1), which Drury dates to late in Herbert's time at Cambridge.

Anyway, in some parts of the United States the church's recruiting is going well.The archdioceses of Omaha, in Nebraska, and Atlanta, in Georgia, each of which serves the fairly modest number of 250,000 Catholics, average around seven vocations a year apiece.

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